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-the ache of missing you-
I see you everywhere in everything. The emptiness aches in my chest and shatters my bones and screams in my ears. It shines in my eyes, blinding me, making me unable to see anything else. It runs through my veins to my fingertips and toes. Its in...

As I was strolling on one day
I met myself the other way
Returning from where I was going
Bright contented smile showing
“What causes you to smile so?”
I asked myself with hopes to know
The temper of what lies ahead
But I just smiled and simply said
“I love the weather we...

I feel like I am drowning but not a peaceful sinking into a dark blue Black Sea, no, a violent drowning; the kind that lifts your body and slams it into the sharp coral rock - knocking the wind from your lungs, cutting your tender soft skin - this is the price you pay for your...